{"id":2209,"date":"2013-02-27T15:24:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2013-06-10T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T18:34:13","slug":"mondo-condo-the-art-condos-model-suites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artcondos.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/27\/mondo-condo-the-art-condos-model-suites\/","title":{"rendered":"MONDO CONDO: The ART Condos Model Suites."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Everybody knows that no matter how well-designed a space may be, it looks a lot warmer, spacious and therefore, a lot more enjoyable when it\u2019s furnished.<\/p>\n

A condo unit may have vast windows that let the natural light pour in, but nothing opens up a space\u2014windows or not\u2014quite as effectively as pictures on the walls.\u00a0 And mirrors.\u00a0 And furniture.\u00a0 You\u2019d think that furniture would simply clutter a space, but the opposite is true.\u00a0 A well-placed chair, for example, not only animates a room, it can also appear to double its size.<\/p>\n

The two recently opened model suites at Art Condos are remarkable exercises in spatial transformation.\u00a0 Both were generated by Toronto-based designer Terry Edward Briceland of TEB Interiors, in concert with Design Republic, a Toronto firm with which Briceland often works.<\/p>\n

Briceland\u2019s approach to design is eclectic, witty, faux-nostalgic and edgy.\u00a0\u00a0 Well-known, in his private practice, for his unforgettably outrageous pillows (there are a good many in the model suites\u2014see the accompanying photos, all provided by Tom Arban Photography Inc.).<\/p>\n

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Briceland is also big on the strategic positioning of mirrors\u2014invariably BIG mirrors\u2014to amplify one\u2019s sense of interior space.<\/p>\n

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He is also fond of making lavish use of the big, raw, forceful wall-graphics of Windsor-based, one-time street artist Daniel Bombardier (aka DENIAL) whose huge panels can be seen adding their own brand of rough theatricality to the model suites\u2014along with dynamic graphics by other artists Briceland admires.<\/p>\n

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Briceland\u2019s sense of design-nostalgia is both quirky and ironic.\u00a0 He enjoys scattering pieces of dead-tech around the condo-spaces\u2014such as a rusty, defunct adding machine and old public-school globes.<\/p>\n

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Presumably, he is subscribing to Marshall McLuhan\u2019s insistence that when an old technology is succeeded by a new one, the old one simply turns into art.<\/p>\n

His quirkiest form of design nostalgia is to leave a few personal objects lying about\u2014a pair of shoes, for example, or a pair of gloves, or a few books.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt makes you think somebody actually lives here,\u201d Briceland says.<\/p>\n

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Everybody knows that no matter how well-designed a space may be, it looks a lot warmer, spacious and therefore, a lot more enjoyable when it\u2019s furnished. A condo unit may have vast windows that let the natural light pour in, but nothing opens up a space\u2014windows or not\u2014quite as effectively as pictures on the walls.\u00a0 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